{"id":103953,"date":"2025-07-11T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=103953"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:55:16","slug":"casey-mize-added-al-all-star-game-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/11\/casey-mize-added-al-all-star-game-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Mize Becomes Sixth Tigers Player Named to AL All-Star Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Tigers\u2019 starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mizeca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey Mize<\/a> has been added to the American League roster for the upcoming All-Star Game, becoming the sixth Tigers player to join the Midsummer Classic. The Tigers now have the most players from one team in the All-Star Game this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/25\/casey-mize-returns-15-day-il-rejoins-tigers-powerful-starting-rotation\/\" target=\"_self\">Mize<\/a> will replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crochga01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garrett Crochet<\/a> of the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Mize was the first overall pick in the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/bullpen\/2018_Amateur_Draft\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 MLB Draft<\/a> out of Auburn. It has been a slow start to the career of Mize, who carried an ERA over 4.00 from 2020 to 2024. Some began to wonder whether or not Mize was going to be considered a \u201cbust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103975\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-103975\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26592981_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26592981_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26592981_168400885_lowres-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26592981_168400885_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26592981_168400885_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26592981_168400885_lowres-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26592981_168400885_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/USATSI_26592981_168400885_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jul 5, 2025; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Casey Mize (12) throws a pitch during the first inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Casey Mize Named to AL All-Star Team<\/h2>\n<h3>Career Resurgence<\/h3>\n<p>This year has been a career year for Mize, who is currently 9-2 with a 2.63 ERA and 1.179 WHIP through 15 starts. The nine wins are a career-high for Mize, who broke his career-high of seven wins, which he reached back in the 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mize suffered a hamstring injury back on May 8th in a start against the Colorado Rockies, but he still finds himself tied for fifth in MLB in wins. Mize has recorded a win in four straight starts and began the season with six wins in his first seven starts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tigers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Tigers<\/a> shut out the Guardians and improve to 11-4 when Casey Mize starts \ud83d\ude24 <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lrCF0aYQlD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lrCF0aYQlD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1941672571209941483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Mize doesn\u2019t carry those sexy strikeout numbers, he does a great job of limiting free passes. His 5.9% walk rate puts him in the 83rd percentile of pitchers, and it would be the lowest walk rate of his young MLB career. Opponents are also only hitting .243 with a .670 OPS, which is a vast improvement from last season. In 2024, opponents were hitting .290 off Mize with a .772 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for the strong success of Mize this season could be his change in pitch pattern. This year, Mize has thrown his fastball less and is upping the usage of his offspeed pitches, particularly the splitter and slider. With these two pitches working at a higher rate, it allows for the fastball to become more effective. For instance, this year opponents are hitting .194 off Mize\u2019s fastball, which is a huge difference from the previous season, when opponents hit .300 off the fastball.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ht\">Casey Mize, 95mph \u26fd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>5th K <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZYULVPZEjf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ZYULVPZEjf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchingNinja\/status\/1939031231145922745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Heavy Representation<\/h3>\n<p>The Tigers currently carry the best record in baseball, and their pitching staff is a huge part of their success. Mize and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/07\/tarik-skubal-records-100-strikeout\/\" target=\"_self\">Tarik Skubal<\/a>, the two starting pitchers representing the Tigers, are a combined 19-4 in their starts. They have also gone six or more innings a combined 20 times this season.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the season, the 1-2 punch for the Tigers was supposed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/skubata01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tarik Skubal<\/a> and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/flaheja01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Flaherty<\/a>, but with the emergence of Casey Mize, things have changed. Everyone was waiting for the breakout season to begin, and now we are finally seeing why Mize was the number one pick in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>A historic season for the Tigers continues only to get better and better. A team that had six All-Stars in the last four seasons now has six All-Stars in one game. The last time the Tigers reached the ALCS in 2013, they had six All-Stars as well. Everything that led to the success of the Tigers 12 years ago is now repeating itself in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 David Rodriguez Munoz \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Tigers\u2019 starting pitcher Casey Mize has been added to the American League roster for the upcoming All-Star Game, becoming the sixth Tigers player to join the Midsummer Classic. The Tigers now have the most players from one team in the All-Star Game this season. Mize will replace Garrett Crochet of the Boston Red Sox. 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